Q 01/05

James Cameron was born in 1954 in Kapuskasing, in which Canadian province?

A) Ontario

B) Quebec

C) Manitoba

D) British Columbia

Answer · why

A) Ontario

Ontario. He grew up near Niagara Falls and left Canada at 17, when his father, an engineer, was transferred to Southern California.

Q 02/05

Which film did Cameron see at 14 that set him building models to work out how its effects were done?

A) Planet of the Apes

B) Fantastic Voyage

C) 2001: A Space Odyssey

D) Barbarella

Answer · why

C) 2001: A Space Odyssey

2001: A Space Odyssey showed him a film could be art, Cameron has said. He built its spacecraft from a model kit and was soon filming his own models o...

Q 03/05

Cameron enrolled at Fullerton College in California to study which subject before switching to English?

A) Chemistry

B) Physics

C) Marine biology

D) Engineering

Answer · why

B) Physics

Physics. He has said he hit a wall with the advanced maths, so he switched to English to write, then dropped out altogether and drove a truck.

Q 04/05

Where did the young James Cameron teach himself special effects by reading other students' theses?

A) The UCLA library

B) The AFI library

C) The Caltech library

D) The USC library

Answer · why

D) The USC library

The USC library. Cameron wasn't enrolled: he pulled graduate theses on optical printing and front projection, photocopied what he could and took notes...

Q 05/05

Which film prompted Cameron to quit his job as a truck driver and enter the film industry?

A) Superman

B) Jaws

C) Logan's Run

D) Star Wars

Answer · why

D) Star Wars

Star Wars alarmed him more than it thrilled him: Cameron has said he felt someone was beating him to the films in his head. Within a year he was shoot...